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London salutes 20 years of big Frieze

Organisers are hailing the exhibition as “the most international to date”.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I’m finally happy to take my work to America - and the just-opened White Cube New York

Back in the Nineties, I was accused of being a narcissist. Blindly myopic and self-obsessed. Thirty years later there is still no greater insult than to be called a narcissist in the cultural world. I’ve always used my life and myself as subject matter. I have never painted pictures, only…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: My boyfriend patted my tummy and said, ‘Hello, we’re going to kill you’

All this week I wanted to buy a tree. Today would have been my day but instead I’m sitting in bed with little Teacup by my side. She keeps puddy pawing the pink fluffy blanket that half covers us both, her little striped paws kneading away, making me feel cosy…

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‘Time is the only valuable thing’: artist Sarah Lucas on slacking, social media and her free bus pass

As Tate Britain opens a retrospective – replete with cigarettes, marrows and fried eggs – the former YBA extols the importance of being idle

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Tracey Emin: The rain came down like tears

Today’s the most content I have felt for a long time, sitting on a comfortable chair listening to the rain come down, Teacup sitting next to me, all curled up, her little pretty face made sweeter with her dreaming smile.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: David Bowie was my rock when I lived among paedophiles and fleas

Fashion turn to the left

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I was raped many times as a child

I received a message. It read,

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‘Pauline is unique’: patron of Emin and Hirst sells off vast Hydra art collection

Pauline Karpidas, who hosted Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst on her Greek island home, to sell hundreds of works at Sotheby’s

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Tracey Emin: How selfish am I? Now I see the light

My favourite thing to do, if I’m really honest, is nothing, I like to lay around thinking.

Evening Standard

Talia on Sinéad, and other deaths

An essay by Talia Marshall on the supernatural event of death

Newsroom.co.nz

OPINION - Tracey Emin: Living without love (again)

I still don’t feel well, my mind is so scrambled, heart keeps pounding, eyes keep burning and living hurts. That’s how it feels living without love, an inner torture like a giant panic button going off. The sound of screaming I WILL NEVER LOVE OR BE LOVED AGAIN.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: It’s different when you are in love

When I was 26 I had an abortion that went terribly wrong, so wrong that I could have easily died. After I had the termination I was still left with a second foetus inside me.

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: It is different when you are in love

When I was 26 I had an abortion that went terribly wrong, so wrong that I could have easily died. After I had the termination I was still left with a second foetus inside me.

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: You think you know what you have, but you don’t

‘I’d like to say this is not a love poem but I’d be lying’

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: I have full-on mega Black Death onslaught Covid — it is hell

This week’s an important week for me, it’s a week of giant colossal life-affirming anniversaries. It should have been a week of celebrating and cheering on my own survival running in and out of the sea, knocking back as much sparkling water as I can take and happily writing my…

Evening Standard

5 best art hotels in the UK

Weekend breaks with an artistic flourish can be a delight for gallery-loving Londoners, says Rosalyn Wikeley

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tracey Emin: I have to battle jellyfish and worse, but nothing beats sea swimming

I’ve always swum. Well, actually that’s not quite true — I’ve always liked being in the water and for someone who grew up in Margate, I learned to swim quite late.

Evening Standard

OPINION - No wonder Londoners are flocking to Kent — I’ve never looked back

In the autumn of 2013 my husband and I moved to the wilds of East Kent from the suburbs of south London. We left because we wanted all the cliches every jaded Londoner wants: clear skies at night, a soundtrack of birdsong instead of sirens and a house that could…

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National Portrait Gallery £41.3m makeover review – a breath of fresh air

Architect Jamie Fobert’s new entrance is the crowning achievement of this bold refurbishment, which opens forgotten windows and embraces the NPG’s mixed identity as temple of art-cum-tourist attraction

The Guardian - UK

Invasion of the cool-girl ceiling-smashers: why I love the revamped National Portrait Gallery

From Tracey Emin to Jann ‘Sgt Pepper’ Haworth, this London landmark’s new additions are game-changers. The result is a thrilling, uplifting gallery that reflects a Britain I am proud to be part of

The Guardian - UK

The new National Portrait Gallery review – ‘It’s the same old cocktail party’

We’re told it has been changed utterly. As if. The NPG makes a claim to be a serious temple of art – but its dismal subservience to celebrity persists

The Guardian - UK

Slashed stone, daylight galore and doors by Tracey Emin: the National Portrait Gallery’s £41m rebirth

Forty-five faces of women, scribbled by Emin, now beam out from bronze doors – all part of an astonishing revamp that has turned this once unloved London landmark into a great building

Evening Standard

The new National Portrait Gallery review – more democratic and diverse, it has never looked better

At last the gallery is worthy of its magnificent collection

Daily Record

Kate Middleton grins alongside Sir Paul McCartney as she unveils £40m revamp of gallery

Kate Middleton headed to central London on Tuesday - officially opening the National Portrait Gallery after a major three-year refurb.

The Independent UK

Princess of Wales re-opens National Portrait Gallery

The Princess met Sir Paul McCartney and Tracey Emin during her visit to the gallery following its multi-million pound refurbishment.

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